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Learning Proxmox VE

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Learning Proxmox VE

Overview of this book

Proxmox VE 4.1 provides an open source, enterprise virtualization platform on which to host virtual servers as either virtual machines or containers. This book will support your practice of the requisite skills to successfully create, tailor, and deploy virtual machines and containers with Proxmox VE 4.1. Following a survey of PVE's features and characteristics,this book will contrast containers with virtual machines and establish cases for both. It walks through the installation of Proxmox VE, explores the creation of containers and virtual machines, and suggests best practices for virtual disk creation, network configuration, and Proxmox VE host and guest security.Throughout the book, you will navigate the Proxmox VE 4.1 web interface and explore options for command-line management
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


The security and information that assurance administrators can realistically provide is clearly never as exhaustive as it is exhausting.

In the first section of this chapter, you learned that hardware virtualization has inherent security benefits.

However, you also learned that many promising benefits are undermined if they're not supported by thorough planning of the virtual infrastructure, explicit policy-making up front, and a flawless deployment, all followed by unflagging policy enforcement and ongoing virtual server lifecycle management.

We then outlined threats that are either unique to virtualized infrastructures or aggravated in the context of virtualization. Each point was followed by either concrete action to mitigate the threat or links to resources for more details on addressing a potential problem.

We concluded with concrete, step-by-step remedies that could be initiated immediately, even as you continue to explore and assess Proxmox VE.